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“He did not long for any other work, for instance that of “reconstruction,�� of which the newspapers wrote so much. He had already experienced after the First World War how the flood of words poured down over the ruins, and how in a disastrous way people forgot that the reconstruction of their own small lives was the most urgent and most important work laid before their hands. And so, out of the thousand-fold multiplicity of the small, unreconstructed lives, the disaster had arisen which had devastated the world �� and the hearts of the world.”